# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Dezember 1909_S558
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

553 Kirchlich⸗Zeitgeschichtliches.

Das Verhältnis zwischen der Augustanasynode und dem Generalkonzil
ist ein gespanntes. Von der Versammlung in Minneapolis schreibt Loung
Lut heran's Companion: This appears to be 4 meeting of the German
(emeral Couneil and the Swedish Augustand Synod.' with the latter as
a negligible quantity until it seems to find just eause for complaint.“
»Our relation to the General Couneil is somewhat anomalous. Only one
thing (except the doctrine) in common: the India Field. As a conse-
quence, we are eitler merely ornamental, or hamper those who wish to
d˙ο things.“ „There should be Ua mutua! understanding and agreement
pefore we attempt to legislate for the whole or à part. This was the con-
tention of the venerable Doctor Norelius. But it is also evident that
pefore very long we must either identV½ν ourselves with the General Couneil,
or else proceed unattended on our Wway. Which shall it be? And it takes
47το to make a bargain. We contribute one-third of the funds and have
no member in the Budget Committéee. Why didn't the Commissioners to
India tell us aν they knew?' Daheim fühlt sich hiernach offenbar die
Augustanasynode im Konzil nicht. F. B.

Rev. Edwin Heyl Delk, Pastor der St. Matthew's Lutheran Church
in Philadelphia, die der Generalsynode angehört, macht der lutherischen
Kirche keine Ehre. Wieso? 3e Vorth Ameérieh aus Philadelphia teilt
die Gratulationsschreiben mit, die von Pastoren der Episkopalen, Kon⸗
gregationalisten, Baptisten, Presbyterianer, Methodisten, Universalisten,
Unitarier, Juden und anderer Sekten dem Erzbischof Ryan zum hundert—
jährigen Jubliäum seiner Diözese zugesandt wurden. Unter den Gratu⸗
lanten befindet sich auch D. Delk, dessen Schreiben also lautet: „I willingly
aud my word of congratulation to my Roman Catholie fellow-eitizens on this
hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the diocese over which the
honored Archbishop Ryan presides. Though differing utterly on questions
of ecelesiastical organization and from much of her theology, I gladly
recognize all of the Christians of the Roman fold as members of that
Catholic Church of which I eount myself a member. The Roman Catholie
Church has beéeen a splendid force in the cçonservation of the moral and
religious life in America. She, above all other churches, has had to deal
with the untutored immigrant and has held in check and guideéd social
classes that would have wrecked our eivie life. she more nearly ap⸗
proaches the ideal church in America than in her European environment.
Her homes for the aged and for children, her hospitals and retreats for
the morally delinquent are models of Christian charity and efficiency.
It is my prayer that the great central truths wFhich our Roman and
Protestant churches hold in common may grow clearer and dearer than
the points on wirich we differ, and, above all, that we may so live and
work together as fellow-eitizens that our beloved city may be purged 0f
its vice, eruelty, and poverty, and the faith, puritx, and honor of our Lord
Jesus Christ may reign in every home and heart.“ Diese Handlungsweise
— Delks, der sich oft im Lutheranm Observer hören läßt, ist eine Schmach
für die lutherische Kirche. Geradezu berüchtigt ist aber D. Delk geworden
durch seine religiöse Gemeinschaft mit dem Reformjuden Rabbi Krauskopf.
Yhe Yress von Philadelphia schreibt: Ten denominations for new. gospel.
Advocating religious fellowsbip, Christian ministers preach at Temple
Reneseth Israel. Noted men in pulpit. At one of the most remarkable